[Casey Culver]

Is it smooth when you export it? If it’s not smooth when you’re playing back, that could be simple cause you’re system is having trouble playing back all the unrendered effects – which is no biggie as far as delivering a good product is concerned. However, if it’s exporting with frames missing like originally pointed out, that’s no bueno.

[Casey Culver]

My guess is that you’ll loose the ProRes workflow even if you stay with a Mac (at least in the traditional sense) – it’s an unnecessary step at this point for the most part. I still batch out some proxy’s for certain circumstances, like 16 up multicam or stacking up a bunch of 4k, but I’m sure there’s comparable codec solutions for PC if that’s a major concern.

The iMac is definitely not a bad option.. But my vote would be new Mac Pro if you can swing it – it’s gonna be a honker, plus the street cred…

[Casey Culver]

Ooo.. Yeah, that’s gonna cost you $375 for that function.. I just launched CS5.5, which I still have on my system, and it does not allow you to do this..

[Casey Culver]

In your toolbar under Premier Pro, there is “Preferences.” Hit that bad boy and go to “Media.” There’s two things you can do here:

1) Under “Media Cache Database” hit the ole “Clean” button. If you haven’t done that in a while, it could cut that file in your Library > Application Support > Adobe… down by a large multiple. And I wouldn’t go deleting stuff out of any Library folders manually since Premier Pro will do it for you.

2) The second thing you can do is under the same Media tab in Preferences, you can point that Media Cache Database to another disc by hitting the “Browse” button. Maybe you got a 1tb drive in another bay of your system… This will keep you from having to clean as often

One last thing that’s pretty cool is CleanGenius – it’s a dope little $10 program for macs that will show you your largest folders or files on a disc..

[Casey Culver]

For some reason when you’re hitting the selection tool on the end of clip, it’s selecting the whole clip instead of just the end. I’m in CS6, so it could be different in previous versions, but in CS6 you can select the whole clip, or just the beginning or just the end of a clip – which doesn’t highlight the whole clip as it is shown in your video. Are you not able to only select the end of the clip – demarcated by a red bracket?

[Casey Culver]

Just like when you’re applying it between two clips – and you’ve used your arrow selection/arrow tool to select where the transition is going to be applied – use the arrow tool to click the edge of the jpeg where the transition will be applied and then use your keyboard shortcut as you normally do. My guess is that you’re skipping the step of showing the program where to apply the transition by selecting the end of the jpeg clip with the selection tool.

[Casey Culver]

Do your clip settings match your sequence settings? Like for example you started your project with a 23.976 fps clip from one camera and you’ve dropped in a 29.97 fps clip from another?

Also, you mentioned in your original description that it happens after color grading – if you export/render the same clip before grading, do the frames still disappear?

[Casey Culver]

When you’re viewing your multicam window, you’re only seeing the single track that the multicam lives on, not the entire timeline. You select this track in the lower center part of that window. So if your multicam is on track one, select track one, track two > select track two etc. Because you are only seeing that single track, the adjustment layer modifications aren’t seen.

If you nest your multicam with an adjustment layer, your multicam window is no longer seeing a multicam in the track you’ve selected – it’s seeing a nested track which it isn’t designed for, and therefore displays nothing/black.

I understand why you might want to see your adjustments during the edit – so you get to cut within the mood/context of the final piece. However, the program isn’t designed to do that > most likely because playing back multiple tracks with applied color correction and effects simultaneously, and doing so all while allowing you to make real time edits, would probably take a spaceship size memory/processor 🙂

Hope this helps.

[Casey Culver]

I’m not sure about previous versions of Premiere Pro, but in CS6 you can highlight multiple clips in your project window, right click, and select Speed/Duration – if you’ve shot in 60P and want to change it to 24P, that would be exactly 40%. You can change Speed/Duration in your timeline, but by doing it in your project window, you get to change multiple clips at once, preview your clips in slowmo, and drag ‘n drop slowmo clips with in and out points directly into the timeline – saving time if you’re using multiple slowmo clips.

You can make your slowmo slower by going with a percent lower than 40 or not as slow by going with a higher percentage. An important note though, if you go below 40%, you might start to notice a flickering effect where it doesn’t have that smooth look as it does at 40%/24P. This happens because you’re eye is capable of seeing the individual frames once you introducing less than 24 frames per second.

If you do your conversion in After Effects, the process will take many times longer and you also lose your audio sync, which doesn’t happen with the above method. Plus with AE, you might have to wait hours for all the clips to be rendered – costing you time and disc space – while doing in Premiere, it will take seconds! Also, unlike the fella says in the vimeo link, using twixtor does not give you a better conversion when dropping to 40%/24p. Twixtor is a program designed for dropping to much lower percentages – like 5%, which will look like garbage if you do it in PP or AE without a plugin like twixtor.

Another note – unlike Apple’s Cinema Tools, this does not change the actual file, it only changes the clip in your PP project.

There was another question about dropping a 60P clip into a 24P timeline – this will not turn your clip slowmo automatically, it will still be in real time.

[Casey Culver]

CS6 doesn’t have the Multicam>Flatten option. Looks like that’s a creative cloud update.. I’ve found a terribly time consuming workaround in which you right click>Replace with After Effects Composition. This creates a new comp in AE with the multicam precomposed in the comp, which results in you seeing camera 1 in you’re Premier sequence instead of the angle that you selected in your multicam. If you double click the precomposed layer in after effects that you just created, it will open up the original multicam stack and you can either delete or turn off all the layers except the camera angle that you want in your sequence. This updates in Premier, you see the proper angle in your timeline, and you can move forward as usual with your grade/compositing/etc in AE.

I’m about to dive into a music video with hundreds of multicam edits, so i’ll be doing hours upon hours of nonsense – wish me luck and I’ll catch you on the flipside. Or maybe I’ll just give in to Creative Cloud…… Damn.